Chapter 11. Providing a Way Back
Imagine that you walk through a door into a room, but when you turn around to leave, the doorway isn't there. You wouldn't design a house this way unless you worked for the carnival. However, there are plenty of funhouse sites on the Web that do essentially the same thing—stranding their visitors on a page without providing a way back.
Designing good navigation helps to prevent the funhouse effect. Take the diagram in Figure 11.1. In this navigation scheme, the visitors go from the top-level page to the lower-level pages in a nice, clear, linear fashion, step by step by step. Providing a way back is as easy as including a link on each lower level page to the next page up in the site structure, just as you include ...
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